If you have not noticed over the past month or two, there have been several new and exciting features added to the forum here. This is part of the development of the next version of YaBB. Our largest hurdle other than the few developers having little time is getting MySQL implemented in the existing code.

I'm not going to list the features out but you'll see drastic design and functionality improvements. I'll let everyone find them on their own. Tell us what you think!

The idea behind all the Ajax/Javascript usage is to make the forum more intuitive, more fun, faster, and use less bandwidth and server resources. Because you are not loading full pages for every action now, things happen much quicker, don't request as much from the server, and save the host on bandwidth. Many of these features can be disabled to revert it to the way things were.

As far as the database support goes, the original rewrite that YaBB has tried to do for years was intended to support any type of database you write a "driver" module for. With the new focus of continuing with the original code base, I'm not sure how it will start out. Most likely, it will still function in this way because we play to put the MySQL calls in its own module with the main source code calling that. This means once other modules are written, a simple variable can tell YaBB to call that module instead for its specific read/write procedures. Our biggest struggle is developers having time to take this task on.

We now have a working MySQL version of the code you see running here (this forum is currently still using the flat files which are slow on SourceForge's server). We have made a large step towards YaBB 3 and moving YaBB forward to meet today's demands. It will still take a while to optimize the code to take advantage of the database, get the last few files into a database tables, and finalize the text encoding method to be used. However, we now have a fully functional database-supported YaBB without sacrificing any old or newly added features.

YaBB install help video1. what yabb forum are you running and the url2. describe in as much detail as you can what happens and also post screenshots if you can3. please be patient we live in different time zones and have other commitments but we will help youas bill and ted say (Be excellent to each other)

Nice. Looks like there are some browser rendering problems at the end if the video.

yer only in IE thow

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Hey, I really like the new features and design around here lately. I noticed on the bottom copyright that the software has been upgraded from YaBB Next Edition to YaBB 3.0 Beta (even if it still says running: YaBB Next Edition on the top right).

These are great moves ahead! I'm looking forward to upgrading my forum and being able to use MySQL database!